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Thursday, March 25, 2010

JPS Labs Improves the Digital AC!

We have long been fans here of the JPS Labs Digital AC power cord. For its modest retail price ($399) it really delivers a very nice improvement in performance on CD, players, DACs, and (from some recent reports I've read) audio PCs! Even folks like Art Dudley at Stereophile have had some very nice things to say about this power cord. Here is what Joe Skubinski (President of JPS Labs and their cable designer/researcher) had to say about the new revised Digital AC-X:
"I'm excited to say we've updated the world's most unique and oldest model AC cord (since 1998), and it's a simple name change to The Digital AC-X' , the 'X' for the number 10 in 2010. About a year ago the filter networks were redesigned with the latest generation passive components capable of handling even higher offending frequencies now and in the future. The cords still provide over 40 db of noise absorption, and sonically have a bit more clarity than the older models. If you or your customers have purchased Digital AC's within the last year or so, they already contain the upgrade and we're now calling it something, with the promise of higher performance going forward as sampling frequencies and speeds continue to increase."

As you can guess, the price has remained unchanged as well, keeping this power cord a excellent value for you digital audio folks out there!

2 comments:

Dave P said...

What does it sound like on pre and power amps? Does it have a power limit?
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RichB said...

I've not used this cord on power amps... generally not big enough to deliver the high current flow needed for power amps... though with smaller amps it may well work well. The Digital AC has no spec'd power limit, but I would not recommend its use with moderate/larger power amps. JPS has a cord called the Analog AC which is somewhat similar to this cable, but optimized more for preamps.